I don't think they are the same - or they didn't use to be in T2K. I haven't explicitly checked this in W5, but variables effectively have an unlimited size. I've frequently read files into a variable that are several mb in size.

<@varinfo> will return the size of a variable. What encoding is being used?

Regards,

Jason.

On 24/07/2004, at 6:25 AM, Ben Johansen wrote:

Yes



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�� Ben, is this the same size for variables too? If I am building a string, and not pulling the data from a data source, am I still constrained by 64K? Stated more plainly, what is the largest size a VAR can be? Will changing itemBufferSize change that limitation?

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Check the configuration variable

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